Polaroids Lyrics - Fat City - Shawn Colvin

Please no more therapy 

Mother take care of me 

Piece me together with a 

Needle and thread 

Wrap me in eiderdown 

Lace from your wedding gown 

Fold me and lay me down 

On your bed 

Or liken me to a shoe 

Blackened and spit-shined through 

Kicking back home to you 

Smiling back home 

Singing back home to you 

Laughing back home to you 

Dragging back home to you 

And I was so wary then 

The ugly American 

Thinner than oxygen 

Tough as a whore 

I said, you can lie to me 

I own what's inside of me 

And nothing surprises me anymore 

But forests in Germany 

Kids in the Tuileries 

Broken-down fortresses 

In old Italy 

And claiming his victory 

Shrouded in mystery 

He went running away with me 

Back in our home New York 

Walking these streets forlorn 

We all in our uniforms 

Black and black 

Doing that slouch and jive 

The artist must survive 

We've got all we need we cried 

And don't look back 

And thinking we had it made 

Poised for the hit parade 

Knee deep in accolades 

The conceptual pair 

But ever the malcontent 

He left without incident 

Vanished into thin air 

Now I am always amazed 

Words can fill up a page 

Pages fill up the days 

Between him and me 

But the vows that we never keep 

From bedrooms to business-speak 

Make me remember how cheap 

Words can be 

And the letters I wrote you of 

Were those of the desperate stuff 

Like begging for love in a suicide threat 

But I am too young to die 

Too old for a lullaby 

Too tired for life on the ledge 

But I had a dream last night 

Of lovers who walked the plank 

Out on the edge of time 

Amidst ridicule 

They laughed as they rocked and reeled 

Over the mining fields 

Coming to rest on this ship of fools 

But he just took Polaroids 

Of her smile in the light 

Of the dawn of the menacing sky 

And before they went overboard 

She turned and held up a card 

And it said Valentine